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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. Pertaining to the fugue - the overlapping of the same theme or motif by two or more voices a few beats apart.
Stretto
Tritone
Modes
System
2. The highest female voice.
Soprano
Phrase
Romantic
Interlude
3. Short detached notes - as opposed to legato.
Notation
Serenade
Sharp
Staccato
4. Music composed such that each note is used the same number of times.
Nonet
Carol
Ricercar
Twelve-tone music
5. A piece of music written in triple time. Also an old French dance.
Courante
Polytonality
Quadrille
Scherzo
6. A period in history dating from the 14th to 16th centuries. This period signified the rebirth of music - art - and literature.
Neoclassical
Renaissance
Capriccio
Verismo
7. The period of music history which dates from the mid 1700's to mid 1800's. The music was spare and emotionally reserved - especially when compared to Romantic and Boroque music.
Vivace
Classical
Courante
Beat
8. A combination of two or more staves on which all the notes are vertically aligned and performed simultaneously in differing registers and instruments.
System
Ricercar
Hymn
Triple time
9. Movement or passage that concludes the musical composition.
Tempo
Introduction
Finale
Interval
10. Written for 2 to 10 solo parts featuring one instrument to a part. Each part bears the same importance.
Chamber music
Renaissance
Libretto
Fermata
11. A set of seven musicians who perform a composition written for seven parts.
Minuet
Etude
Septet
Glee
12. The flats and sharps at the beginning of each staff line indicating the key of music the piece is to be played.
Key signature
Atonal
Fermata
Scherzo
13. Made up of five horizontal parallel lines and the spaces between them on which musical notation is written.
Staff
Stretto
Overture
Energico
14. To repeat a previous part of a composition generally after other music has been played.
Overture
Scordatura
Reprise
Tempo
15. Atonal and violent style used as a means of evoking heightened emotions and states of mind.
Instrumentation
Expressionism
Adagio
Octet
16. Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending.
Scale
Timbre
Allegro
System
17. Music that is written and performed without regard to any specific key.
Conductor
Dissonance
Fugue
Atonal
18. A hymn sung by the choir and congregation often in unison.
Chorale
Quartet
Encore
Round
19. The frequency of a note determining how high or low it sounds.
Pitch
Chromatic scale
Pastoral
Clavier
20. A line in a contrapuntal work performed by an individual voice or instrument.
Nocturne
Part
Partita
Canon
21. The principal note of a triad.
Nonet
Root
Opera
Septet
22. First developed in the 8th century - methods of writing music.
Notation
Resonance
Contralto
Chord progression
23. The expression the performer brings when playing his instrument.
Capriccio
Tritone
Interpretation
Serenade
24. Introduction to an opera or other large musical work.
Madrigal
Ornaments
Tonal
Overture
25. The period of music history which dates from the mid 1800's and lasted about sixty years. There was a strong regard for order and balance.
Measure
Key
Classicism
Progression
26. A piece of music played at the end of a recital responding to the audiences enthusiastic reaction to the performance - shown by continuous applause.
Encore
Glee
Staff
Finale
27. Sliding between two notes.
Twelve-tone music
Suite
Polyphony
Glissando
28. A form of music written for marching in two-step time. Originally the march was used for military processions.
Partita
Key
March
Gregorian Chant
29. Short detached notes - as opposed to legato.
Staccato
Concert master
Relative pitch
Carol
30. Refers to any great composer - conductor - or teacher of music.
Prelude
Maestro
Tutti
Root
31. The principal note of a triad.
Relative major and minor
Root
Unison
Encore
32. A composition written for a solo instrument. The soloist plays the melody while the orchestra plays the accompaniment.
Overture
Concerto
Time Signature
Tuning
33. Music written for a lively French dance for two performers written in triple time.
Root
Elegy
Galliard
Opus
34. Eight full tones above the key note where the scale begins and ends.
Grave
Octave
Cadence
Chamber music
35. Primary theme or subject that is developed.
Polytonality
Motif
Tablature
Quintet
36. Arranging a piece of music for an orchestra. Also - the study of music.
Progression
Stretto
Vivace
Orchestration
37. Combination of two or more keys being played at the same time.
Accessible
Grazioso
Polytonality
Deceptive cadence
38. Refers to the tuning of an instrument.
Piano
Capriccio
Chromatic scale
Temperament
39. A symbol in sheet music that returns a note to its original pitch after it has been augmented or diminished.
Nonet
Oratorio
Musicology
Natural
40. Music of a particular form consisting of four movements. Each of the movements differ in tempo - rhythm - and melody; but are held together by subject and style.
Baroque
Concerto
Rigaudon
Sonata
41. One who directs a group of performers. The conductor indicates the tempo - phrasing - dynamics - and style by gestures and facial expressions.
Conductor
Classical
Atonal
Rigaudon
42. The first tone of a scale also known as a keynote.
Libretto
Tonic
Song cycle
Stretto
43. The study of forms - history - science - and methods of music.
Baroque
Voice
Musicology
Intonation
44. Pertaining to the fugue - the overlapping of the same theme or motif by two or more voices a few beats apart.
Major
Partial
Rigaudon
Stretto
45. A musical composition written solely to improve technique. Often performed for artistic interest.
Requiem
Tone less
Allegro
Etude
46. Either of the two octave arrangements in modern music. The modes are either major or minor.
Tritone
Falsetto
Development
Modes
47. Pleasing combination of two or three tones played together in the background while a melody is being played. Harmony also refers to the study of chord progressions.
Presto
Harmony
Neoclassical
Tessitura
48. The piece of cane in wind instruments. The players cause vibrations by blowing through it in order to produce sound.
Portamento
Reed
Timbre
Requiem
49. A book of text containing the words of an opera.
Hymn
Libretto
Triple time
Measure
50. An instruction in sheet music to play softly. Abbreviated by a 'p'.
Piano
Beat
Chant
Flat
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